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For some physics students, the concept of a particle travelling faster than the speed of light holds endless fascination, and Cherenkov radiation is a visible consequence of a charged particle travelling through a medium at locally…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert N. C. Pfeifer , Timo A. Nieminen

Electromagnetic processes associated with a charged particle moving in a strong circular magnetic field is considered in cylindrical coordinates. We investigate the relation between the vacuum curvature emission and Cherenkov emission and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maxim Lyutikov , George Machabeli , Roger Blandford

Modified theories of electrodynamics that include violations of Lorentz symmetry often allow for the possibility of vacuum Cerenkov radiation. This phenomenon has previously been studied in a number of Lorentz-violating theories, but none…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Brett Altschul

We present a study of the emission of Cherenkov radiation in thick media, explore the limitations of the simulation tools currently in use in particle and nuclear physics, and propose a method for overcoming these limitations. We start with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 Dmytro Minchenko , Juan Pablo Yañez , Aksel Hallin

We explore the possibility that a charged particle moving in the gravitational field generated by a scalar star could radiate energy via a recently proposed gravitational \v{C}erenkov mechanism. We numerically prove that this is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase , Diego F. Torres

We present an interdisciplinary review of the generalized Cerenkov emission of radiation from uniformly moving sources in the different contexts of classical electromagnetism, superfluid hydrodynamics, and classical hydrodynamics. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Iacopo Carusotto , Germain Rousseaux

Extended Air Showers produced by cosmic rays impinging on the earth atmosphere irradiate radio frequency radiation through different mechanisms. Upon certain conditions, the emission has a coherent nature, with the consequence that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Enrico Conti , Giorgio Sartori

Classical Cherenkov radiation is a celebrated physics phenomenon of electromagnetic (EM) radiation stimulated by an electric charge moving with constant velocity in a three dimensional dielectric medium. Cherenkov radiation has a wide…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Edl Schamiloglu , Alexander Figotin

We consider Cerenkov radiation which must arise when randomly oriented straight cosmic (super)strings move with relativistic velocities without intercommutation. String interactions via dilaton, two-form and gravity (gravity being the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Melkumova , Dmitri Gal'tsov , Karim Salehi

In the last ten years, the field of Cherenkov astronomy has become an important contributor to high energy astrophysics with the detection of eight objects at energies above 300 GeV. These observations have advanced our understanding of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Catanese

Very energetic cosmic rays entering the atmosphere of the Earth will create a plasma cloud moving with almost the speed of light. The magnetic field of the Earth induces an electric current in this cloud which is responsible for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-22 K. D. de Vries , A. M. van den Berg , O. Scholten , K. Werner

Spectral lines of heavy atomic elements in the ejecta of supernovae and neutron star mergers can have important contribution to the opacity of the ejecta matter even when the abundance of the elements is very small. Under favorable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-13 Li-Xin Li

The studies realized in INRNE (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy) particulary in cosmic rays detection and construction of Muonic Cerenkov Telescope in University of Blagoevgrad [1] shows the need to develop a theoretical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Angelov , E. Duverger , E. Malamova , L. Makovicka , A. Mishev , J. Stamenov

Relativistic jets launched by Active Galactic Nuclei are among the most powerful particle accelerators in the Universe. The emission over the entire electromagnetic spectrum of these relativistic jets can be extremely variable with scales…

We describe the radiation phenomena which can take place in the physical vacuum such as Cherenkov-type shock waves. Their macroscopical characteristics - cone angle, flash duration, radiation yield and spectral distribution - are computed.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

Some characteristic features in the radiation from a relativistic electron uniformly rotating along an equatorial orbit around a dielectric ball have been studied. It was shown that at some harmonics, in case of weak absorption of radiation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sh. Grigoryan , H. F. Khachatryan , S. R. Arzumanyan , M. L. Grigoryan

In vacuum with an induced by strong electromagnetic wave refraction index larger than unity, an ultra-relativistic electron emits Cherenkov radiation. During the interaction with this wave the electron also radiates photons via the Compton…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Sergei V. Bulanov , Pavel V. Sasorov , Stepan S. Bulanov , Georg Korn

Due to their weak interactions, neutrinos can polarize a medium and acquire an induced charge. We consider the Cherenkov radiation emitted by neutrinos due to their effective electromagnetic interactions as they pass through a polarizable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Juan Carlos D'Olivo , Jose F. Nieves , Palash B. Pal

We recently showed that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons [1]. Here we review our previous holographic calculation of the energy loss in N=4 Super Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-14 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Daniel Fernandez , David Mateos

Understanding the sources, acceleration mechanisms, and propagation of cosmic rays is an active area of research in astro-particle physics. Measuring the spectrum and elemental composition of cosmic rays on earth can help solve this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-20 Henrike Fleischhack